Wednesday 10 February 2016

NHS needs funding rise to make it envy of world again, says healthcare expert

NHS needs funding rise to make it envy of world again, says healthcare expert Damage caused by PFI, pay rows and the 2012 reorganisation needs reversing, says Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

The NHS has been the envy of the world for its fairness, good outcomes and value for money, but it needs more funds and the dismantling of recent changes if it is to be so again, according to a leading expert on international health systems.

Healthcare in the UK still takes first place in the rankings of 11 wealthy nations put together by the Commonwealth Fund in the US. But Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says the real glory days of the NHS were in the 1980s. Other countries, such as Spain, Italy and Portugal, modelled their own systems on it.

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